Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works…”

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

World English Bible

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

American Standard Version

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

Geneva Bible 1599

For we are his workemanship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes, which God hath ordeined, that we should walke in them.

Darby Translation

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

Young's Literal Translation

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Bible in Basic English

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

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Cross references

“we are”

Philippians 2:13 Hebrews 13:21 2 Corinthians 5:17 Philippians 1:6 Psalm 100:3 Isaiah 43:21

Philippians 2:13 · BSB

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

Hebrews 13:21 · BSB

equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 5:17 · BSB

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

Philippians 1:6 · BSB

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Psalm 100:3 · BSB

Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Isaiah 43:21 · BSB

The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

“created”

Ephesians 4:24 Colossians 3:10 Psalm 51:10 Galatians 6:15

Ephesians 4:24 · BSB

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 3:10 · BSB

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Psalm 51:10 · BSB

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Galatians 6:15 · BSB

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.

“good”

Colossians 1:10 2 Corinthians 9:8 2 Timothy 3:17 2 Timothy 2:21 Titus 2:14 1 Timothy 6:18

Colossians 1:10 · BSB

so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

2 Corinthians 9:8 · BSB

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

2 Timothy 3:17 · BSB

so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 2:21 · BSB

So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.

Titus 2:14 · BSB

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

1 Timothy 6:18 · BSB

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,

“which”

Ephesians 1:4 Romans 8:29

Ephesians 1:4 · BSB

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

Romans 8:29 · BSB

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

“walk”

Ephesians 4:1 1 John 2:6 Acts 9:31 Deuteronomy 5:33 1 John 1:7 Psalm 119:3

Ephesians 4:1 · BSB

As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

1 John 2:6 · BSB

Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

Acts 9:31 · BSB

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.

Deuteronomy 5:33 · BSB

You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

1 John 1:7 · BSB

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Psalm 119:3 · BSB

They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9not by works, so that no one can boast.

11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

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